Connections Hints for September 20, 2026: Clues and Answers

Today's Connections has four hidden groups of four. Start with a gentle nudge and only open more if you need it.

TWILIGHTSNOWTORTILLASKATEDERBYFRIED CHICKENCOASTERHOVERBLADEBLU-RAYBLUEGRASSSAND DOLLARNEAR DARKBOURBONSURFSINNERS

Hint 1: One word from each group

Each of these words belongs to a different group.

Hint 2: Yellow (easiest) group theme

The yellow group is Round Flat Things.

Hint 3: Green group theme

The green group is Associated With Kentucky.

Hint 4: Blue group theme

The blue group is Vampire Movies.

Hint 5: Purple (hardest) group theme

The purple group is ___boards You Ride On.

Show all four answers

Round Flat Things

BLU-RAY, COASTER, SAND DOLLAR, TORTILLA

Associated With Kentucky

BLUEGRASS, BOURBON, DERBY, FRIED CHICKEN

Vampire Movies

BLADE, NEAR DARK, SINNERS, TWILIGHT

___boards You Ride On

HOVER, SKATE, SNOW, SURF

About this puzzle

More about today's puzzle. Everything in this section can include the answer.

Why each word belongs in its group, with a short dictionary meaning where one exists.

Yellow (easiest): Round Flat Things

BLU-RAY: (informal) A Blu-ray Disc.
COASTER: (by extension) A small, flat or tray-like object on which a bottle, cup, glass, mug, etc., is placed to protect a tab...
SAND DOLLAR: Any echinoderm of the order Clypeasteroida, having a flat, disk-shaped body with the mouth in a mid-ventral position,...
TORTILLA: A type of Mexican flatbread made out of cornmeal or flour.

Green: Associated With Kentucky

BLUEGRASS: (music, uncountable) A subgenre of country music with roots in Scots-Irish Appalachian folk music, blues, and jazz an...
BOURBON: A whiskey distilled from a mixture of grains in which at least 51% is corn, aged in charred, new oak barrels. Made in...
DERBY: Any of several annual horse races.
FRIED CHICKEN: The meat of chicken, cut into pieces and usually with the bone in, coated in batter and deep-fried.

Blue: Vampire Movies

BLADE: The (typically sharp-edged) part of a knife, sword, razor, or other tool with which it cuts.
NEAR DARK: a 1987 American neo-Western horror film co-written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow (in her solo directorial debut), a...
SINNERS: those who commit acts that violate known moral rules.
TWILIGHT: The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the ill...

Purple (hardest): ___boards You Ride On

HOVER: (intransitive) To remain stationary or float in the air.
SKATE: A runner or blade, usually of steel, with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, made to be fastened under the foo...
SNOW: (uncountable) The partly frozen, crystalline state of water that falls from the atmosphere as precipitation in flakes...
SURF: To ride a wave on a surfboard; to pursue or take part in the sport of surfing.